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| Gunman opens fire at Fort Bliss in Texas |
| 2010-09-20 |
| A GUNMAN shot and injured two people at Fort Bliss early this morning before being killed by law enforcement at the Texas army post, officials confirmed. Col. Joe Simonelli, Garrison Commander at the post said reports of shots fired were received around 3pm yesterday local time (Today 7am AEST). Law enforcement officials responded and killed the individual believed to be the shooter. The extent of the victims' injuries was not immediately known, nor was the motive of the shooter. The identities of the victims were not released. KDBC-TV in El Paso, Texas reported the incident was a murder-suicide. Witnesses told the station the shots were fired in a Burger King at Fort Bliss. Earlier reports indicated the incident took place at a convenience store on base called Shopette. The area was sealed off and the gates to the post were closed following the incident. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #3 said the same thing about the Vietnam vets and it turned out to be wrong. |
| Posted by: bman 2010-09-20 23:39 |
| #2 From McClatchy today on how the Army is broken after the draw down from Iraq (posting only the part about Ft. Bliss): "Nearly 70 soldiers in his 1,163-member battalion had tested positive for drugs: methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. Others were abusing prescription drugs. Troops were passing around a tape of a female lieutenant having sex with five soldiers from the unit. Seven soldiers in the brigade died from drug overdoses and traffic accidents when they returned to Fort Bliss, near El Paso, after their first deployment. "The inmates were running the prison," Wilson said. What Wilson had to deal with, however, was hardly an isolated instance. With the U.S. drawdown in Iraq, the Army is finally confronting an epidemic of drug abuse and criminal behavior that many commanders acknowledge has been made worse because they'd largely ignored it during nearly a decade of wars on two fronts. The Army concedes that it faces a mammoth problem." |
| Posted by: Infidel 2010-09-20 20:39 |
| #1 Earlier reports indicated the incident took place at a convenience store on base called Shopette. Sigh, every "convenience store" on Army posts and Air Force bases are called the Shopette. They are run by AAFES. Likely the Burger King was in the same mini-mall. |
| Posted by: Steve 2010-09-20 19:57 |